The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 20
The Otter: «there are hundreds and hundreds of you … you could have taken him in».
Who acts: hundreds, you · What happens: be, take in · To what, where: Otter
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Otter | det |
| 2 | Otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 are | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 Otter | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 are | expl |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 are | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hundreds | cc |
| 9 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hundreds | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 hundreds | nmod |
| 12 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 taken | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 taken | aux |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 are | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 taken | obj |
| 18 | in | in | PART | _ | 16 taken | compound:prt |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Otter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | hundreds of you and hundreds | the Otter | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take in in a quote | could · perfect | you | Otter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:20.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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